Mah-abadean Dynasty

(The). The first dynasty of Persian mythological
history. Mah Abad (the great Abad) and his wife were the only
persons left on the earth after the great cycle, and from them the
world was peopled. Azer Abad, the fourteenth and last of this dynasty,
left the earth because “all flesh had corrupted itself,” and a period
of anarchy ensued.